Leanstack

MARCH 14, 2019

A brief history of the Continuous Innovation Framework The early scaffolding for the Continuous Innovation Framework was described in my first book: Running Lean. March 9, 2012 - Running Lean Meta-Process - Lean Canvas Continuous Innovation Framework 2.0?—?June Version History Continuous Innovation Framework 1.0?—?March

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Like, if you’re looking to reach more folks, putting some fresh thinking into how to tap into new audiences could make a big splash. For a deeper dive into mixing creativity with planning, have a look at our article on using design thinking to shape your game plan.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 12, 2022

We used AI to identify the most frequently asked questions about design thinking. Then, we used another AI tool to answer the questions. Here are your design thinking FAQs and answers. You can also see our “human” responses to the big question: what is design thinking ?

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2023

Many tools, techniques, frameworks, mechanics, and emerging methodologies have allowed different parts of the innovation process to be explored and exploited. These tools and techniques enable ideation, validation, design-build and scaling. The need today is not to dispense with this but to link it fully up.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

The belief that lean management principles will get the innovation out of the door quicker, has been one of those management adoptions that often trick us into believing we are achieving more than we actually are. Leans slows down and becomes increasingly burdened by fat being layered on, further down the innovation execution process.

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Innovation Excellence

OCTOBER 21, 2018

Use Innovation Accounting to Drive the Metrics that Matter Most for Your New Venture or Start-Up As the field of innovation management matures, many entrepreneurs and companies have built solid capabilities in design thinking, rapid prototyping, portfolio management, open innovation, and the list goes on.

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Leapfrogging

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

For more on similar topics, mosey on over to our article on how to apply design thinking to the strategic planning process. Check out these pointers: Encourage Creative Thinking : Set up spots and times for everyone to throw ideas into the ring. Encourage Creative Thinking Make space for new ideas and brainstorming.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2024

Instead, they are tapping into the global pool of talent and ideas, using tools like crowdsourcing and hackathons. This openness is driving innovation by bringing in fresh perspectives and new ways of thinking. Have the tools differed or is it the acceleration of technology connecting it all up? Has the methodology changed?

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Open Innovation EU

JANUARY 22, 2016

Roca wrote a pretty good article about that a while ago: from the sandbox to the hive ( Model for Organization Design, Roca ). Many popular tools are based on this process view on organization design. Think about The Lean Start-Up (Ries), Agile, Business Model Generation (Osterwalder) and Customer Development (Steve Blank).

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mjvinnovation

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

It is the union between doing and thinking. Design Thinking: Think of solutions, solve situations and problems, close the gaps that need filling in. It is Design Thinking that will pave the way to traveling assertively. Design Thinking: What is the human need behind the business need?

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 3, 2023

GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton You know ALL the innovation tools and frameworks: Design Thinking Lean Startup Disruptive Innovation But knowing and doing are two different things. When I first learned Jobs to be Done, it felt painfully obvious, exactly like the customer research I did for five years at P&G.

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Tullio Siragusa

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Blending Metrics and Empathy with Design Thinking: The New Paradigm in Leadership The contemporary leadership environment requires a meticulous balance between quantitative evaluations and genuine human connection. With Design Thinking as the tool, a new paradigm is set to emerge, merging metrics-driven and empathy-driven leadership.

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Leapfrogging

DECEMBER 10, 2024

A variety of NPD strategies can be employed, each with its own set of principles, methodologies, and tools. The lean startup methodology emphasizes the importance of agility and learning, with a mantra of “build-measure-learn” to minimize waste and speed up learning.

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etventure

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Friedrich Arnold, Senior Project Manager at etventure, explains how manufacturers can embrace the Lean Startup methodology as the centerpiece of their Digital Transformation. Proudly, the Head of Production explained to me: “We use Lean Production – meaning we eliminate waste from our manufacturing process.” The Proud Leader.

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Gregg Fraley

MARCH 17, 2021

Free Weekly Webinar of Facilitation Tools with Gregg Fraley. Every Thursday at 2 pm EST, Master Facilitator Gregg Fraley demonstrates a facilitation tool online. Thinking Differently Takes Tools. At some point everybody needs to think differently. When you ask your mind to think differently, what happens?

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 19, 2017

It does not tell leaders how to manage their organizations” An introduction to Design Thinking for Innovation Managers. “The key today is to think like a designer in the way you lead, explore, create and innovate” Some were provided before this over the last year or so, but I feel are worth exploring. .

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 11, 2022

The four interwoven catalysts are recognizing we are moving from complicated to complex ; we have different collaboration tools to be more agile and adapt, we need to adopt a clearer mindset to working in innovation ecosystems , and we need to leverage the digital transformation we have been undertaking.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 4, 2023

So what are some of the specifics in new skills, processes, tools and capabilities and behaviours that are different for cross-sector innovation collaborations compared to a single-sector approach? The co-creation process should be inclusive, collaborative, and iterative to enable participants to generate and refine ideas together.

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Leanstack

MARCH 14, 2019

A brief history of the Continuous Innovation Framework The early scaffolding for the Continuous Innovation Framework was described in my first book: Running Lean. March 9, 2012 - Running Lean Meta-Process - Lean Canvas Continuous Innovation Framework 2.0?—?June Version History Continuous Innovation Framework 1.0?—?March

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Design thinking Design thinking is a problem-solving approach that puts the user at the center of the design process. There are many design thinking exercises and activities. The ones you find below can be utilized at many stages of the design thinking journey.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 7, 2016

Innovation can’t be tackled through broad-brush recipes or tools. It requires a more deliberated approach, such as the lean startup process, design thinking or a combination thereof. Tip: Tim Kastelle has posted a worthwhile series on how to implement lean startup for innovation initiatives.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

A “lean” approach amplifies both profits and purpose. The obvious place to turn is innovation approaches such as design thinking , rapid prototyping , and open innovation. Corporate philanthropy. Benefit corporations. Nonprofits and non-governmental organizations. Sounds ideal.

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Innovation Architecture

MARCH 21, 2018

Of late, many have embraced the practice of collaborative innovation, with its application of social media to sourcing crowds and ideas, and design thinking, with its structured approach to vetting hypotheses about new business opportunities. The lean practitioner innovates their way to True North.

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 20, 2021

If you can remember those three words, and the tools that go with them, you’re well on your way to more creative, efficient, and effective problem solving. As you learn more MCPS thinking tools, creative power grows. MCPS is a three-phase structured process of exploration, ideas, and action. Everybody is creative.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 23, 2017

If you are new to Value Proposition Design, think of it as the third leg of a stool consisting of Lean Startup and Design Thinking as the other legs — all three are similar in intent and each provides valuable tools, arguably with Alex’s tools being most valuable to product managers who think like product leaders — or in my words, product masters. (..)

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

Lean is Dead. Long Live Lean! Twenty four years ago, James Womack, Daniel Jones, and Daniel Roos introduced our world to a modern understanding of the concept of Lean Production. Lean Production was, and still is, a profoundly powerful management philosophy for the mass production of uniform goods.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

Check out our list of design thinking books to read. Find practical tools for measuring, managing, and accelerating the process, as well as strategies to reduce risk when launching something new. With an innovator’s method, one can use these tools to change how ideas are created, refined, and brought to market.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Lean Innovation Project Management: Putting in place a structure which teams can use to focus limited time and energy on progressing ideas quickly, and validating progress. Facilities & Locations: Project teams are provided with space, spaces, equipment, and tools to run their required innovation experiments.

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Jeffrey Phillips

JANUARY 10, 2017

That's because as more companies try more innovation, more tools are vetted, more methods explored and exposed. Worry less about tools and more about culture Too many new innovators worry about finding and learning one tool or methodology that becomes their mantra.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 28, 2016

The two I have decided to summarize are 1) Beyond Design Thinking and 2) Minimum Viable Transformation. Beyond Design Thinking. Beyond Design Thinking – reflecting on its place. What is at the heart of design thinking? This is not what design thinking should be for.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 5, 2017

When you step back and recognize all the different advancements we have making in designing tools and frameworks, in understanding innovation, it holds promise. I firmly believe we are on the cusp of a new innovation era.

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Fehmida Kapadia

JANUARY 3, 2018

We have started integrating the agile and lean methodology (popularized by the IT industry) into our waterfall methodology (popularized by the manufacturing industry). The key tenet of agile and lean development is to quickly and iteratively build?—?test?—?learn. The Design Thinking Methodology of Empathy?—?Define?—?Ideate?—?Prototype?—?Test

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 6, 2016

Where does design thinking, lean management, the early thinking to focus more on changing the business model come in? These need to be deliberately designed into your innovation process, not used in a random, ad-hoc approach or as sideshows. We lose precious time as we should be forward looking.

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Gregg Fraley

JANUARY 30, 2019

“Innovation Intensive, beyond Design Thinking” Public Course* With Master Trainer Gregg Fraley. Innovation Intensive, beyond Design Thinking is comprehensive in its approach and provides compelling methods, insights, tools, and stories from master trainer, Gregg Fraley. Tools for problem framing.

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Moves the Needle

DECEMBER 17, 2015

His very lean progressive assembly process was the result. The proper amount of coal on your shovel, the amount of coal you had to shovel in a minute, and the tool you used to shovel the most coal into the furnace. This is Lean Startup. The result is choice. All were studied and adjusted to “perfection.” Let’s do it!

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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

If they give you skepticism or consternation, you can also show them tools like the Business Model Canvas. When you break them down, these tools cover what they’re used to seeing in a business plan without the weeks/months of wasted time and effort. Structure, Tools & Processes. Lack of clearly defined innovation metrics.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 5, 2020

Innovation Practice: Innovation cannot be done using the same tools and practices that we use within the core business. Instead, innovators need to use an iterative process to design and test their ideas: Innovation Tools : Companies need to adopt the right tools for designing business models and testing assumptions.

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